Photo Review Video: Why Stock Photos Get Rejected

Dear Reader, The first time you try to sell your photos as stock is probably the first time you’ll ever have someone look at them with a critical eye. It’s scary. Your friends and family like your photos. You like your photos. But when you send them to a stock agency, you think: This is it. Someone’s going to tell me once and for all if my photos are good… or bad. But it’s not about good or bad. When it comes to selling photos as stock, it’s about three things:

Usefulness to designers and photo buyers

Technical quality

Specific agency guidelines

Last week, I asked you to send me your stock photo “rejects.” All of the images I got are great images, but they were all rejected from stock agencies. Most images get rejected for the same few reasons, and many of those reasons are undetectable unless you’re viewing your photos at full-size. So let’s do that now. Watch my video review, here: (It’s about an hour long.) [viddler id=d2d62da4 w=560 h=345] Once you get into the pattern of taking and submitting images to stock agencies, you start to get a good feel for what’s going to be accepted or rejected. And it all starts with one VERY important thing that you need to do each and every time. That thing is looking at your photos at 100%. (Here’s how.) — Bonnie Bonnie Caton Creator, Breakfast Stock Club P.S. Premium Members – Watch for your “Spring Has Sprung” Challenge reviews and lesson, coming up next week!